I once took an old GE Mobile Maid and tried to create a sudsaver return machine. The impeller, running while the dishwasher pumped, slowed the motor way down and created a super suds lock. I removed the impeller, but it took over a half an hour to pump the full load of water back. I thought someone could have imvented a heated holding sink with a pump for machines without a suds saver Kelly
Post# 126515 , Reply# 1 5/4/2006 at 12:34 (6,563 days old) by tomturbomatic(Beltsville, MD)
Although the tub is uninsulated, your idea was great EXCEPT that dishwasher pumps are sized to handle small amounts (1.5 to 2.3 gallons) of water with non sudsing detergents. You would not have had to pump all of the water back with the dishwasher. If you were using a machine with a reversing motor like a Maytag, you could have used a pail to fill the washer with enough water to satisfy its lowest water level setting and let it start agitating. With a hose that reached almost to the bottom of the Mobile Maid, the washer probably would have sucked the water back into the machine in no time.
I learned, the hard way about the reversing motor and pump action of the Maytag. I left the hose of my 806 in a tub of water after the wash. When it filled for rinse and began to agitate, it sucked the suds water into the rinse and out over the tub and all over the floor. After that, I filled the washer to it's lowest setting and then let the pump suck the rest back in, until the machine was full. A Thor approach to semi automatic suds saving. That poor 806 was put through every indignation imaginable and still loved me and served me well. Kelly
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